Last year I went through a loop and a couple of the questions I got and mentioned to friends who are SWE's at Google thought they were too hard for an interview, especially after checking their proposed solutions in the internal problem bank.
So it's definitely still happening.
No I didn't get the job because they were too hard for me to even get a brute force solution.
It’s just sad, since of course those questions have nothing to do with the skills you actually need on the job: “the login authentication is failing once every 10,000 times, go fix it!” Oooh, shall I use a B-tree!?
So it's definitely still happening.
No I didn't get the job because they were too hard for me to even get a brute force solution.